David Pierce

I was hoping nobody would notice.

Yeah, I think one of my great theories about Slack is that everybody uses Slack wrong. Like everybody uses Slack wrong. And I think if you rewind all the way back to that initial launch of Slack, Stuart Butterfield wrote this really great blog post. It's called something like we don't sell saddles here.

Yeah, I think one of my great theories about Slack is that everybody uses Slack wrong. Like everybody uses Slack wrong. And I think if you rewind all the way back to that initial launch of Slack, Stuart Butterfield wrote this really great blog post. It's called something like we don't sell saddles here.

Yeah, I think one of my great theories about Slack is that everybody uses Slack wrong. Like everybody uses Slack wrong. And I think if you rewind all the way back to that initial launch of Slack, Stuart Butterfield wrote this really great blog post. It's called something like we don't sell saddles here.

And he basically outlines like the whole vision for what Slack is going for and makes the argument that the biggest problem is that most people don't understand what they need Slack for. And so Slack's job is not only to convince you that you need this, but that you need something like this in the first place. And their whole idea was basically to be a search engine for all your stuff at work.

And he basically outlines like the whole vision for what Slack is going for and makes the argument that the biggest problem is that most people don't understand what they need Slack for. And so Slack's job is not only to convince you that you need this, but that you need something like this in the first place. And their whole idea was basically to be a search engine for all your stuff at work.

And he basically outlines like the whole vision for what Slack is going for and makes the argument that the biggest problem is that most people don't understand what they need Slack for. And so Slack's job is not only to convince you that you need this, but that you need something like this in the first place. And their whole idea was basically to be a search engine for all your stuff at work.

If you really want to boil it down, the idea behind Slack was not to be a chat app. It was to just be a place to put all your stuff. And all your stuff is communication, it's files, it's all these things that sort of you accumulate during the course of a workday. And by having that all in one place that's accessible, you could build something really powerful.

If you really want to boil it down, the idea behind Slack was not to be a chat app. It was to just be a place to put all your stuff. And all your stuff is communication, it's files, it's all these things that sort of you accumulate during the course of a workday. And by having that all in one place that's accessible, you could build something really powerful.

If you really want to boil it down, the idea behind Slack was not to be a chat app. It was to just be a place to put all your stuff. And all your stuff is communication, it's files, it's all these things that sort of you accumulate during the course of a workday. And by having that all in one place that's accessible, you could build something really powerful.

Super cool idea has nothing to do with what Slack is and how it's used, right? We use Slack as an email replacement, right? I think Stuart was serious when he said they weren't trying to kill email. They were trying to like subsume it inside of a different system, but they were always going to be like, look, if you want to send email to talk to each other, that's fine.

Super cool idea has nothing to do with what Slack is and how it's used, right? We use Slack as an email replacement, right? I think Stuart was serious when he said they weren't trying to kill email. They were trying to like subsume it inside of a different system, but they were always going to be like, look, if you want to send email to talk to each other, that's fine.

Super cool idea has nothing to do with what Slack is and how it's used, right? We use Slack as an email replacement, right? I think Stuart was serious when he said they weren't trying to kill email. They were trying to like subsume it inside of a different system, but they were always going to be like, look, if you want to send email to talk to each other, that's fine.

But like when you need to share files, do it in Slack. I think that is much closer to what Slack wanted to be than what it has become. And what it became is this awful system engagement bait app that we all spend way too much time in and never actually get any work done inside of.

But like when you need to share files, do it in Slack. I think that is much closer to what Slack wanted to be than what it has become. And what it became is this awful system engagement bait app that we all spend way too much time in and never actually get any work done inside of.

But like when you need to share files, do it in Slack. I think that is much closer to what Slack wanted to be than what it has become. And what it became is this awful system engagement bait app that we all spend way too much time in and never actually get any work done inside of.

It's millennials and it's text boxes. There's this long sort of mythological story about Kinja, which was the old CMS that they used to run at Gawker.

It's millennials and it's text boxes. There's this long sort of mythological story about Kinja, which was the old CMS that they used to run at Gawker.

It's millennials and it's text boxes. There's this long sort of mythological story about Kinja, which was the old CMS that they used to run at Gawker.

And I have no idea if this is true, but it is a story I heard that I spiritually completely believe, which is that they ran an experiment at Gawker where if they changed the size of the default text box in Kinja, it would change how long people wrote. If you give people a lot of space, make the text box big, They're gonna write a lot in it. You fill the thing.